Posted on 03/31/2007 12:18:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Doing the jobs Americans won't do. Won't do for $10 an hour, that is.
Just what is your "field of work"?
The greed is growing. American companies fighting for immigrant workers at half the price, rather than provide jobs for Americans searching for work! Boycott! Boycott! Boycott!
You may ask.
Gee, don't we have any qualified American citizens?
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But my husband has repeatedly been told that he's overqualified when he applies for jobs. How can companies say they can't find qualified applicants so they need H1B visa people when they are telling citizen applicants they are overqualified?
I thought H!B visas were for positions where citizens didn't have the necessary skills.
"That's neither free market nor capitalist, and it requires quite a bit of government intervention to achieve the ends you desire."
The government could substantially reduce the number of H1B's by the stroke of a pen, not much intervention required. In fact, it requires a lot more government interverntion to achieve the ends you desire when the government targets and saturates a particular job sector with H1B visa workers on behalf of corporations, which is neither free market or capitalist, but government meddling on behald of it's cronies.
H1B visa window opens (80,000 Visas Available for 2008 Fiscal Year)
This is why the next terror attack is not an "if" but a "when"
If all those people move here, who will answer the phone when I call Desk Tech Support?
These tech companies are sitting on so much cash, I'm shocked that enterprising attorneys aren't pounding away with suit after suit covering every possible EEO angle.
Other positives to employers are H1Bs will work extra hours
I don't know many business professionals who work less than 60 hours a week.
will not be inclined to invoke civil rights benefits (e.g. FMLA)
I don't know anyone in the private sector who has taken advantage of the FMLA. I know a few people who have used it, but they are either in government or academe.
do not incur pension liability
What's a pension? Most private sector employers have long since shifted to 401Ks, particularly for newer employees.
and will not generally enter union membership
Outside of teachers, I don't know a single professional who is in a union.
60 hours a week? How about 80+?
Unbelievable you haven't seen FMLA usage. Anyone that is pregnant and who earns sick leave as part of their compensation package, is eligible to take up to 12 weeks at least, of leave and to be paid for however long their sick leave accrual covers. BTW I find nothing wrong with FMLA.
Savvy pros view 401ks as junk. Tax deferred whole life insurance plans as part of a retirement plan are much superior.
The main advantage to employers is 2+ for 1.
If the US Gov is allowing several hundred thousand professional work visa annually, then over years there is an accumulation of several million such workers into the workforce. If there are say 4 million critical skill foreign workers in the US earning an average of 60k replacing 2 million resident workers that would earn 120k, the increase in FICA is:
14% of (4M x 60k - 2M x 80k) = 11.2 billion
to Social Security.
The 1040 income tax differences are irrelevant because 1040 income taxes go to paying interest on national debt issues out of thin air by the 'Federal' Reserve (a private cartel of bankers, nothing 'federal' about it).
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198
1.5 hours long but worth every minute and then some in repetition for study.
Thank you, just as I thought.
Device design, mask layout, wafer processing, process development, product creation (a couple patents on the way), customer interface, some prototype mechanical assembly, vendor contact/tool and die design, chem tech, janitorial, etc.
IOW, just the typical work mix in a start-up environment.
Wow, you seem to have worked in all the major areas of semiconductor design/manufacturing. Thats a tough market these days, with companies going fabless and design starts falling.
There is a window of "talent arbitrage", usually ages 22-28, where a company can get more out of an employee in hours and skill-to-work ratio than they have to pay that employee. H1B expands that arbitrage even further, and allows it to last longer. I think the concept is overrated, but many MBA-type managers are fixated on realizing that advantage. The pressure on public companies to "make the numbers" is immense in these times - most of them aren't places one really wants to be looking for work at any age.
It should be much easier than it is for IT workers to sell their services as independent consultants. Blame laws passed by unions (who are afraid their members are going to get reclassified as as independent contractors and denied benefits) and the IT consulting industry, who managed to get a section inserted in the tax code which virtually prohibits IT people (but no one else) from working on a 1099 basis.
Yeah. It's lots of fun!
There's a lot to be said for young smart guys.
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